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Table 1
The joint distribution of literacy and income
| Literacy quintile | Income quintile | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | |
| 1st | 8.3 | 5.8 | 3.4 | 1.6 | 0.8 |
| 2nd | 4.4 | 5.3 | 4.4 | 3.4 | 2.4 |
| 3rd | 2.5 | 3.9 | 4.8 | 4.9 | 4 |
| 4th | 1.9 | 3.2 | 4.4 | 5.2 | 5.4 |
| 5th | 1.3 | 2.4 | 4.2 | 4.9 | 7.4 |
| Note: Based on calculations from IALS 2003. Literacy refers to Document Literacy. Income refers to household pre-tax and transfer income. Cell entries correspond to percentage of total observations in the given cell, defined by quintiles of the literacy and income distributions. Numbers in each row and column may not add up to 20 due to rounding. Table source: Statistics Canada, 2007, International Adult Literacy Survey, Number 18, "Literacy and the Labour Market: The Generation of Literacy and Its Impact on Earnings for Native-born Canadians", Catalogue number 89-552-MWE. |
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